I need a burger – STAT!
By Wednesday, specifically. At least that’s what Spiro Gioldasis and Luis Flores are planning to open The Stage Burger Lounge (8624 Colesville Road, formerly Sabroso). The latter is the owner and former sous chef at Mrs. K’s Toll House, and the former runs the always tasty Pacci’s Pizzeria and Pacci’s Trattoria. According to the Washington Post GOG Blog:
The burgers at the 85-seat Stage Burger won’t all be beef-centered. Flores plans to offer bison, turkey and a filling for vegans as well as a pulled pork sandwich. The burgers will be priced between $4.35 for a kid-size sandwich and $9.85 for a bison burger loaded with mushrooms, brie and truffle oil. The sides will include hush puppies using a recipe from Gioldasis’s father, who ran a restaurant,Dairy Dream, in Bennettsville, S.C., throughout the 1970s.
Luckily, this will space out my burger rationing from Quarry House’s Monday night half-priced burger night. And the onion rings and shakes will more than make up for the lack of tater tots. Keep an eye out on Wednesday and let me know if the dream comes true.
See the Post post for more details.
UPDATE: The web site for the restaurant is live, as is their Facebook page.
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YUM, I’m excited. If they make burgers even half as decent as Pacci’s does pizza, this will be a good addition for Silver Spring.
Just wish I could have my Sabroso and eat good burgers too…
According to a commenter on Silver Spring Singular, the former owner of Saboroso passed away in May. His family took over the business but soon found they just weren’t up to running a restaurant. RIP Mr. Saboroso and now bring on the The Stage Burger Lounge!
Crazy how quickly the turnaround is. 5 days after buying Sabroso they’re opening the new place? Same thing for the old Babe’s building. Highlands Coffee space was immediately claimed as well. People sure are jockeying to get into dTSS! Wonder why the Taste of Jerusalem space has remained vacant…seems weird. Owners are asking way too high a rent, I guess?
They’re going to make a killing on nights when the Fillmore is having a show. Right now, people (hungry, young people) line up for at least half an hour beforehand with nothing to do. Now, they’ll be able to snack.
@jag – I’m not sure what’s going on with Highland. I get the feeling that Addis Abbas is moving out of their pad into Highland’s. Highland’s has a request for a liquor license on March 15 and Addis Abbas has a request for a license transfer on the same day.
@Bubba,
You might be right, but the name of the new place (which I can’t currently remember) didn’t sound like an Ethiopian restaurant and I believe it had the name “____ Cafe.” It seems like it’d be a complete deviation from Addis Abbas…maybe same ownership as Addis but a second, new place altogether? If only Penguin was still around or Patch was interested in digging into things like this. Oh well, I imagine we’ll know soon enough.
The name listed is Lesaac Cafe. No idea if they are connected with Addid Abbas. Just seemed odd they both had liquor license requests up for the same day. Just makes me curious as to where Addis Abbas is transferring their license to.
I know there was supposed to be some kind of development on that block. At least, a sign has been there for what seems like forever.
Yeah – that space next to Addis Ababa was supposed to have multi-level retail, office, etc. It seems the Fenton Village development has taken a bit of a hit lately – including nothing happening yet for the hotel at Fenton & Silver Spring.
I spoke with the owner of the Fenton & Silver Spring development (Silver Spring Park) a couple months back and he said he’s aiming for a April groundbreaking. Really hope that’s still on track because, yeah, seems like all the other smaller projects in FV (compared to the giant buildings going up on Ripley, etc.) seem to be stalled. I imagine it’s at least in part due to financing still being very hard for the smaller developers found in FV while bigger developers working on large projects (Home Properties for 1155 Ripley, Foulger-Pratt for “The Citron,” etc.) can easily prove they aren’t a risk to banks.